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I feel like this is cool, but is also a harbinger of how the Internet is becoming a bunch of bots trying to trick other bots away from the real content, which i
by thepuppet33r 2y ago
I feel like this is cool, but is also a harbinger of how the Internet is becoming a bunch of bots trying to trick other bots away from the real content, which is how often being written by bots (at least in part).
- supportengineer 2y agoWe should turn all of this shit off, go outside, and breathe some fresh air.
- throwway120385 2y agoI often dream of working my great grandfather's job as a finish carpenter.
- blantonl 2y agoIt's bots all the way down...
- derefr 2y ago"Becoming"? Dumb overzealous bots (e.g. broken API clients that retry immediately forever; scrapers that want your 5PB dataset right now; etc) that won't go away — so you have to confuse/stall/crash them to keep your service up — have been a thing since the '90s. They're the reason that some NOC admins block entire ranges of APNIC and AFRINIC, and why DNSRBLs exist. Here's a fun read on dealing with this sort of thing in the context of a Tor Hidden Service: https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/777-Stopping-Tor-Attacks.html https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/777-St...